I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The only way round is through.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Solitude is independence.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.